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I have been looking for an easy way for users to change the font size on the
website and came across a short, elegant PHP script that switches style sheets
with a click. Many visitors have complained about the small font size, so you
can now change it to suit your preference.

I receive lots of emails. Most are questions from atheists (where all the
"answers for atheists" come from) or theology questions from fellow Christians.
Occasionally, I get emails that really touch me. Recently, I received an email
from Paul, whose wife had died about two years ago from cancer, leaving him to
care for five children. He asked the question, "...how can I raise my children
to believe in a God who left us?" Looking on Google, I found that Paul's wife
had been a very strong Christian, who wrote about her faith right up until her
death. There are no "right" answers for people who have lost loved ones,
especially when their loved one dies at a relatively young age. Please pray for
Paul and his children - the need is great.

Reviews

The Cell's Design

Fazale Rana (Ph.D.
in chemistry), vice president of research and apologetics at
Reasons To Believe, has written a
new book,
The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry, that
attempts to show that cellular biochemistry points to the existence of the Creator
who designed it. Whereas most intelligent design books attempt to show the
existence of design by demonstrating the existence of irreducible complexity,
Dr. Rana examines the cell's biochemistry with broad strokes of how everything
works together with such marvelous fidelity. So, even if a single piece or line
of evidence might be dismissed as a statistical outlier, the weight of evidence
makes a powerful case for design by a Creator. Each chapter begins with an
analogy from the art world that relates to the topic at hand. Apparently, Dr.
Rana is quite an art enthusiast. More...

The Irrational Atheist

The Irrational Atheist by Vox Day is excellent at examining the arguments of atheists
Richard Dawkins,
Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett showing where those
arguments are contradicted by the facts or logic. In a rather humorous section, Day quotes Christopher Hitchens saying, "what
can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." Day
takes him quite literally, and list 51 assertions that Hitchens fails to support
in any way. According to Hitchens's own logic, all those claims should be
dismissed without evidence, which Day promptly does. The book is one of the best at dissecting the arguments
of the "new atheists." More...

The Third Jesus

In
his book, The
Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra attempts to show that Jesus
Christ was teaching what is now known as Buddhism/Eastern Mysticism. This claim
can only be accomplished by twisting and/or redefining what Jesus said. Mr.
Chopra takes this one step further by questioning whether or not Jesus Christ
said anything that is recorded in the New Testament, and draws from
Gnostic writings for support as to what He supposedly said. He needs to appeal
to these extra-biblical documents to help prop up his theology, because if the
author doesn't use those documents his argument will be even weaker, if not
collapse completely. More, by guest author, Frank Desparrois, Jr...

Answers for Atheists

Roman Catholicism & AIDS

The Catholic Church's opposition to condom use is often cited as the reason for the spread of HIV and AIDS
in Africa, since Catholics are told that they shouldn't use condoms or any artificial form of birth control. If Catholics are so eager to follow the teachings of the church, what about the commandment not to commit adultery
(which is the primary cause for the spread of HIV)?
Do African Catholics gets AIDS more than non-Catholics? More...

Christianity too old-fashioned?

According to the Barna Research Group, 78% of young people believe that
Christianity is too old-fashioned to be relevant. Yes, the stories involve
donkeys instead of cars, fishing nets instead of Gordon's Fish Sticks, grinding
flour with stones instead of Wonder Bread, and dirt roads instead of freeways.
However, the teachings of Jesus are no more irrelevant now then they were when
first explained in the first century. More...

New Testament Corrupt?

According to Bart Ehrman, not only was Jesus misquoted, but we have no
real way of knowing anything He said, since the apostles and scribes
basically wrote whatever they wanted. Accordingly, these people, and later
Christian leaders, chose from among a plethora of writings to "create"
Christianity. Does the evidence show that this is how Christianity
originated or is Ehrman just reflecting his own personal biases? More...

"Partial free will"?

I have been struggling with the problem of receiving a lot of evil email from atheists and have
been attempting to limit it by numerous means. The last technique gave me the
idea about how God might eliminate evil and still allow free will. However, I
have run up against a wall in my personal efforts to eliminate evil, which
reflects some of the same problems God would have encountered in eliminating
most, but not all evil in the universe. More...

Design vs. Evolution

ID is anti-science?

Many scientists and science education lobbyists have written
articles claiming that intelligent design is just a backdoor
approach for religious fundamentalism that is aimed to close off
scientific inquiry. Most individuals who make these claims are
avowed atheists, who hate religion and wish to exterminate it
altogether. They hope that use of this red herring argument will
generate hatred against the "evil" intelligent design proponents.
The anti-intelligent design movement is running scared, since their
vision of a God-free world is collapsing all around them. More...

Abortion

Abortion as art

A senior at Yale was going to submit her art project, "Abortion
as art" to be exhibited at the university. However, university
officials found the project to be unacceptable. The controversy soon
erupted all over the Internet, causing even "pro-choice" groups to
comment on how evil it was to repeatedly attempt to get pregnant and
then abort the fetus. However, if abortion were a good thing, as
they claim, then more abortion should be even better. The student
should be applauded for doing good. More...

Misc

Colliding galaxies

The team from the Hubble Space Telescope has released several
dozen new images of galaxies that have collided with each other. You
can now view these images, or send an online greeting card using
these images. It is a good thing that we are in one of the less
crowded areas of the universe. Good luck or design? More...

Slideshows

Flash Slideshows

In looking for a reference on the web, I discovered that somebody
had converted one of my slideshows to Adobe's Flash format. The
slideshow was very
easy to use and retained the animations found in the original
PowerPoint file. Taking the hint, I have converted all the
PowerPoint slideshows to a corresponding Flash version. The Flash
files are smaller and load quickly so that you can begin the slideshow
without waiting for the entire file to download. They even look
reasonable at full screen mode.

Those are the most recent updates and changes since the last e-mail
update. If you would like to see anything in particular at Evidence for God
from Science, let me know. "See that no one repays another with evil for
evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all
people." (1 Thessalonians 5:15)

In Christ,Rich Deem

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